Peter Adler was born in April 1933 in Berlin. When Hitler came to power, his father lost his job for being Jewish, and in 1936 he moved to England, where he had to requalify as a doctor. By June 1938, Peter, his mother and sisters had joined his father in London and during the Blitz, Peter was evacuated to the countryside.After studying medicine at London University, Peter met his wife Eve, a nurse. They moved to Zambia for two years, lived in Israel for a short period, and settled...

A sociological and psychological study illuminating the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the twenty-first century.Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury, long considered a suicidal ge...

This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings that examine the societal construction of social problems out of the personal troubles that peop...

Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems, a collection edited James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy, includes 14 clearly written articles that exemplify the best of sociological scholarship on drug and alcohol problems. The readings strike a balance between constructionist, epidemiological, and ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, and related problems such as domestic violence, crime, and the spread of HIV/AIDS. A general introduction and five section introductions w...

Carl Henrik Koch har skrevet flere bøger om Søren Kierkegaards banebrydende filosofi, men i denne bog tager han et skridt tilbage i tiden og ser på den mand, hvis filosofi havde en afgørende indflydelse på Kierkegaards religiøse tankegang. Adolph Peter Adler var både filosof og præst, men er langt mindre kendt end sin arvtager. Kierkegaard så ham imidlertid som så vigtig en tænker, at han i 1846-1847 skrev Bogen om Adler. Selvom bogen først blev udgivet efter forfatterens død, så han den s...

»Intelligent, anpassungsfähig, verschwiegen und zuverlässig«BND-Notiz über Klaus BarbieDie unglaubliche Nachkriegskarriere von Klaus Barbie, einstiger Gestapo-Chef und »Schlächter von Lyon«, einer der meistgesuchten NS-Kriegsverbrecher, ab 1947 Agent des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes CIC und ab 1966 Informant des Bundesnachrichtendienstes.Der Historiker Peter Hammerschmidt hat umfassend und hartnäckig recherchiert, um die komplette Biographie Klaus Barbies nach 1945 au...

The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much of his life he remained almost entirely unknown. A writer's writer, a scholar of seminal, pio...

" Alors que la France recherchait Barbie pour le juger, il travaillait pour les services secrets américains et... allemands "" Alors que la France recherchait Barbie pour le juger, il travaillait pour les services secrets américains et... allemands "Pour faire ce livre, Peter Hammerschmidt s'est plongé dans les archives américaines, allemandes, britanniques et Françaises. Il a dû se battre contre les administrations américaines et allemandes qui ne voulaient pas lui donner ac...

If you are a leader—in any sense of the word—or aspire to be an effective one, the world desperately needs you. Perhaps you are an elected or appointed official. Or you run a library. Or you coach a Little League team. While leaders do many things, a major cornerstone of effective leadership is conflict management.Filled with many engaging stories and examples, Calming the Storm: A Leader’s Handbook for Managing Unproductive Conflicts presents seventy-five short and quick ...

This book is one of the first to systematically examine the debate about global order in International Relations from an ecological perspective.Bringing together an international team of expert contributors, chapters offer a well-rounded exploration of the ecological view on world order from a diverse mix of cultural and theoretical backgrounds. The book provides a nuanced understanding of the social structures underlying specific world political challenges and offers valuable insi...

New Confucian Horizons: Essays in Honor of Tu Weiming represents both a sustained reflection on Tu Weiming’s legacy from those who have worked with him and an original contribution to the field of intercultural dialogue that Tu himself spent a lifetime cultivating. The importance of Sino-American intellectual relations in an era of mounting geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China scarcely requires explanation. Tu Weiming’s work has significantly deepened Sino-Amer...